Admit vs. Own — What's the Difference?

Confess to be true or to be the case

Of or belonging to oneself or itself

Allow (someone) to enter a place

That which belongs to one

Accept as valid

To have or possess as property

Allow the possibility of

To have control over

To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge or concede

To admit as being in accordance with fact, truth, or a claim; acknowledge

To disclose or confess (guilt or an error, for example).

To make a full confession or acknowledgment

To afford opportunity for; permit

Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.

To allow to enter

Not shared.

To grant the right to enter

(obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.

To accept into an organization or group

(obsolete) Not foreign.

To accept (someone) as an inpatient in a hospital.

(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.

To accept into evidence as relevant and otherwise admissible

(transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

To afford possibility

(transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

To allow entrance; afford access

(transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.

To make acknowledgment; confess

To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.

One who is admitted.

To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.

(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

To be very good.

(transitive) To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

(intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

(transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny

(transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.

(transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

(transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.

(intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).

(transitive) To take responsibility for.

(transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

(transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

(transitive) To claim as one's own.

To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.

To confess.

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.

To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; - most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.

Declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of;

Have ownership or possession of;

Allow to enter; grant entry to;

Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive;

Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of;

Admit into a group or community;

Afford possibility;

Give access or entrance to;

Have room for; hold without crowding;

Serve as a means of entrance;